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Today’s interdependent and interconnected world requires joint efforts and holistic approaches to protect critical infrastructure assets from the growing number of attacks and to address ever-evolving convergent threats to our economy, security and well-being.

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Tencent’s Keen Security Lab has revealed a number of vulnerabilities in the onboard compute systems of select BMW vehicles.
Between January 2017 and February 2018, Tencent Keen Security Lab researchers conducted tests with various BMW models, with a focus on the head unit and T-Box components.
After 13 months of research, the team discovered 14 vulnerabilities which ...

Articles, in-depth analysis and insights from U.K. Civil Aviation Authority, Hungarian Ministry of Defence, Brazilian Information Technology Center Renato Archer and more.
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The Pentagon has embraced a controversial policy of destroying enemy nuclear missiles before they launch, an internal policy document from May 2017 shows. It’s an effort that appears to include executing cyberattacks against missile control systems or components.
The Pentagon document does not name adversaries. But experts who reviewed it for The Daily Beast considered it ...

The thousands of radiation-monitoring posts installed in Fukushima Prefecture after the 2011 nuclear crisis have malfunctioned nearly 4,000 times, sources said Sunday as the Nuclear Regulation Authority prepares to remove them after spending ¥500 million a year on repair costs.
“It’s all about the budget in the end. They can’t reuse the devices and there seem ...

Space isn’t just about what happens up there, near the stars – it is about what happens down here, on the ground.
Like cyber, we’ve all become entirely reliant on it without really realising.
Mobile phones, navigation, weather forecasts, you name it; the life-enhancing technology that we all now take for granted is only possible because of ...

A deadly virus that causes fever, vomiting and convulsions – and for which there is no vaccine – has sparked a health alert in India.
Nipah is mainly carried by fruit bats and has a mortality rate of around 75%.
It can also be passed on by pigs and from human-to-human contact and can lead to coma ...

Cyber security (or lack of…) has been one of the most consistent themes running through business news stories these recent years. Elements of rail and metro have been slow to wake up to the threat, but two events from last week, have reiterated the importance of a robust and updated cyber-security for both operational and ...

The Defense Ministry is set to outsource part of its cybersecurity operations to the private sector to bypass training needs for its own staff, sources close to the ministry say.
The move comes amid intense competition with friendly and other nations to develop capabilities that allow them to enter foreign systems while also addressing the growing ...